Why do the group 'citizens for Responsibility & Ethics' Hate Jack Murtha?

Question

This is the group sueing the Bush adm.

they accuse him of being the most unethical member in congress.

Akkita- he wasn't indited b/c he turned states evidence and testified against those.

Answer 1

Rep. John Murtha is thinking big thoughts. Since coming out for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq last year, he has accused Marines of murder "in cold blood" before a preliminary investigation is even complete; accused the military of a cover up over the same incident; declared his candidacy for the House majority leadership post; and, most recently, refined his cut-and-run strategy in Iraq to mean "redeployment" to Okinawa, Japan.
That's quite a splash for such a veteran congressman, who a year ago had zero name recognition outside Washington. That he's made a name for himself now by slandering our troops and their mission deserves a brief recital of some other activities associated with Mr. Murtha.
Last June, the Los Angeles Times reported how the ranking member on the defense appropriations subcommittee has a brother, Robert Murtha, whose lobbying firm represents 10 companies that received more than $20 million from last year's defense spending bill. "Clients of the lobbying firm KSA Consulting -- whose top officials also include former congressional aide Carmen V. Scialabba, who worked for Rep. Murtha as a congressional aide for 27 years -- received a total of $20.8 million from the bill," the L.A. Times reported.
In early 2004, according to Roll Call, Mr. Murtha "reportedly leaned on U.S. Navy officials to sign a contract to transfer the Hunters Point Shipyard to the city of San Francisco." Laurence Pelosi, nephew of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, at the time was an executive of the company which owned the rights to the land. The same article also reported how Mr. Murtha has been behind millions of dollars worth of earmarks in defense appropriations bills that went to companies owned by the children of fellow Pennsylvania Democrat, Rep. Paul Kanjorski. Meanwhile, the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan campaign-finance watchdog group, lists Mr. Murtha as the top recipient of defense industry dollars in the current 2006 election cycle.
As Rep. Joe Wilson, South Carolina Republican, has said, "If there is a potential pattern where Congressman Murtha has helped other Democrats secure appropriations that also benefited relatives of those members, I believe this would be something that merits further review by the ethics committee."
It's odd that the media, which has been fairly unbiased in going after corrupt politicians recently, has gone silent on Mr. Murtha's questionable actions. Or maybe it isn't. Since December, Mr. Murtha has become the darling of the antiwar crowd, and, as we've seen with other such darlings, scrutinizing their behavior is considered disrespectful. But as we're on the subject, few might recall that after the massive 1980 Abscam scandal, Mr. Murtha was named by the FBI as an "unindicted co-conspirator."
Maybe the next time the new Jack Murtha thinks up another big idea someone can ask him about the old Jack Murtha.

does that sound very ethical to you?

and to jl jack he is such a war hero just like kerry huh?

"...Murtha admitted during an emotional conversation on the floor of the U.S. House in the early 1980s that he did not deserve his Purple Hearts." -1
"Murtha has thus far refused to release his own military records." -1
"...casualty records show that Murtha was injured in 'hostile' actions near Danang, Vietnam " -2

"In the first incident, his right cheek was lacerated, and in the second, he was lacerated above his left eye. Neither injury required evacuation," -2

Murtha as describing two different injuries. -1
"I was wounded in the arm with shrapnel from a bullet that hit the motor mount of a helicopter. In the other, my knee was banged up and my arm was banged up when a helicopter was shot down from a very few feet,"
-Murtha
"..(letter)sent by Murtha to his wife..."
"struck in the ankle" by a "shot that ricocheted off the helicopter."

"He campaigned as a war hero and I've never seen any documentation that he earned any of these honors," -Harry Fox

Answer 2

One reason that comes to mind is the Abscam bribery scandal of the late 1970s and early 1980s.........
"Murtha was one of eight members of Congress lured to a Washington, D.C., townhouse by a team of FBI agents posing as representatives of a fictitious Arab sheik. They handed out briefcases filled with $50,000 in return for helping the sheik gain residency in the United States."
Congressman Jack Murtha (D-PA) was not indicted or prosecuted. The FBI videotaped Murtha as saying, "I'm not interested...at this point." to $50,000 cash right after Murtha had offered to provide names of businesses and banks in his district where money could be legally invested

Of the thirty-one targeted officials, one senator, Harrison A. Williams (D-NJ), and five members of the House of Representatives (John Jenrette (D-SC), Richard Kelly (R-FL), Raymond Lederer (D-PA), Michael "Ozzie" Myers (D-PA) and Frank Thompson (D-NJ)), were convicted of bribery and conspiracy in separate trials in 1981. Another, John M. Murphy (D-NY), was convicted of a lesser charge

Answer 3

When he11 freezes over. He is a vain slimeball, and dems is not going to even maintain him dependable for such feedback. Most of them even applaud him. It is disgusting. The final individual who made such terrible feedback approximately infantrymen in struggle time...they ran because the democtratic nomination. Murtha for the democratic nomination!!!! Let's listen it!!! Absolute warranty of a republican victory.

Answer 4

Who is that group?

Murtha speaks the truth. He challenges the misinformation. And he does so from a strong moral foundation. As a veteran he knows war firsthand. Because he carries such authority he is harder to ignore and refute, hence groups who disagree with him are left to less than ethical retorts.

Answer 5

He's a vet, what's to hate about vets like Kerry and Murtha who actually served and know about war?

Answer 6

Well it is kind of hard to like him. He is kind of like the school bully.

Answer 7

because they can